§ 60-157. Parking requirements.

All new parking lots shall be subject to the approval of the town board. Requests for said parking lots shall be accompanied with detailed plans on landscaping, which will include proposed and existing elevations, parking layout, drainage provisions and driveway locations. In all districts, except those areas which are located in a fire district as designated on the official map, there shall be provided at the time any use or building is erected, enlarged, extended, or increased off-street parking stalls for all vehicles in accordance with the following:

(1)

Access. Adequate access to a public street shall be provided for each parking space.

(2)

Design standards. State design standards shall be met.

(3)

Auto parking.

a.

All theaters, arenas, auditoriums, churches or other place of public gathering hereinafter erected shall provide an accessible parking space off the public street of sufficient size to accommodate at least one car for every ten seats provided.

b.

Every dwelling hereafter erected or structurally altered shall provide motor vehicle parking space on the same lot, off the public street and accessible thereto, in the ratio of not less than two such parking spaces for each family which the building is intended to accommodate.

c.

Every building hereafter erected or moved for any use first permitted in the business district, or any additions to any existing building devoted to such use, shall provide motor vehicle parking space off the public street in the ratio of not less than one parking space for each 100 square feet of ground floor area in such building.

d.

Every building hereafter erected or structurally altered for any industrial use shall provide not less than one parking space for each four persons employed plus an additional parking space for each vehicle operated in connection with the use of such building.

e.

Parking spaces required by subsections (3)a, c. and d of this section may be provided off the premises or in a parking lot developed in cooperation with the owners or operators of other buildings or uses; provided that, the sum of the parking spaces provided in such cooperatively developed parking lot shall not be less than the sum of the parking spaces required by this chapter for all the buildings or uses involved; provided further that two or more uses for which the parking demand is generated on different days or during different, and not overlapping, hours of the day, may designate the same parking space to meet part or all of the requirements of this subsection for each such use.

(4)

Lighting. Any lighting used to illuminate off-street parking areas shall be directed away from residential properties and public streets in such a way as not to create a nuisance. However, in no case shall such lighting exceed three footcandles measured at the lot line.

(5)

Handicapped parking requirements. The provisions contained in Wis. Stats. §§ 101.13, 346.503 and 346.56, and any Wisconsin Administrative Code sections adopted pursuant to these statutes are hereby adopted by reference and made applicable to all new parking facilities being constructed.

(Code 2006, § 13-1-91)